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Season 19 Ep 23: Omniscient Nerd, Void Your Warranty, Ferocity

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:42:29 -0400

Croncast - 2008-03-21.mp3
Show: #470
Length: 15:41
Size: 10.8mb
Format: mp3

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We keeps it short today
Maggie is sick with croup and flu with fever
It's one half of a show
So I was at Goodwill
What story you tell doesn't start this way?
My pockets were loaded
I don't trust my purse
You shouldn't
We haven't told the story of your purse being stolen yet?
Nope
Another day
Not to be disgusting
Sure
I had to go to the bathroom and leave my cart outside the door
I pulled up my pants with ferocity
As soon as I left my pockets felt lighter
Oh, Baby
I go back in and my cell phone is in the toilet
Multi-use public toilet
I had to decide which hand to stick into the toilet
Baby, I gotta tell ya
You should have just left it
Goodwill urine water would do it
You could have sold it with your personal information
What are they going to steal? Your skype number?
This person could use more friends
Lists of potential friends
I love the idea
How much is a list of friends from a cell phone found in a toilet at Goodwill?
You're right
Kris, I need you to get me a new phone
I want a penny phone
Cheap flip phone?
Cell phones say a lot about people
It's like getting out of prison and wearing the same clothes from 20 years ago
I want a phone that I can dial and drive
If you hit the shift key you can dial numbers
It isn't a smart phone
They call that insurance fraud
I gotta hit the red dot
Sure, if you crack the head open you will void the warranty
It's funny you say that
Two months ago I had brain surgery
I felt like I was an inch tall
Omniscient nerd

The Resale Queen Podcast is now here! Every Saturday by 9 a.m. CST

Tags: smart phone Verizon voided warranty Omniscient nerd

Ego test with real world rankings

Sat, 08 Sep 2007 09:24:47 -0400

Aaron Brazell has a quiz up to find out "How Important Do You Think You Are?"

It started out as a Skype chat the we were having and then he actually put it together. Probably the most production Skype chat I have ever had. Meaning that the 34th tangent of the conversation came to fruition.

I took the quiz . . . I'm a Pirillo.

Tags: Aaron Brazell Chris Pirillo Skype am i a nerd you are a nerd

Jeff Probst interview, not mine, Tom Green's

Tue, 22 May 2007 09:23:14 -0400

I've been getting a lot of searches for "Jeff Probst interview" the past week since my post about the client work with did with Jeff and thought that some of you might be interested in downloading the hour and a half 455mb interview that he did with Tom Green last month.

I'm a fan of Tom Green and dig what he is doing with his show . . . hanging out, having some drinks, call-ins, skype-ins and big name guests in a lo-fi environment (it's Tom, the guest and the tech or two).

With that said, constructive criticism to follow, I'm not a fan of Tom's hired guns' web design, RSS prowess or the podcast consistency. I really like the show and want to see it meet some level of current web proficiency, also known as "nerds that get it".

Problem 1 is that the process of downloading a tom Green show is difficult. Problem 2, symptom of Problem 1, is that shows are streaming or progressive download (pseudo streaming) from the site. Problem 3 is that the RSS link for "Podcast" on the site goes directly to the Tom Green iTunes page . . . in iTunes and not the browser OR the real RSS feed.

Would it be too much to actually link to the RSS feed like this? I think not. My other issue with the RSS feed is that it only includes Apple RSS tags. Which means the display in other programs like FireAnt.tv is sans description or links back to the originating source, a.k.a www.tomgreen.com., where one might find more information about the episode.

Problem 4, the show looks good on Apple TV and the podcast releases are about as consistent as a Golden Girls' bowel movement. The live show is done week nights, when Tom isn't traveling around. The podcasted version takes days, sometimes weeks to show up in the feed. With the live version being semi-consistent the podcasted version should follow, just good form.

Tom, listen to me. Get nerds who can deliver your media and distribute it to the widest possible audience.

Tags: Tom Green podcast Jeff Probst tom green rss feed web proficiency pseudo streaming

Polycom Communicator C100S a better tech purchase

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:25:02 -0500

With the Netgear Wifi phone number one on my "great concept horrible execution" list I was forced to take the appropriate action and return it to the store. Something that I rarely do. But instead of returning, I really needed a SkypeIn call solution, I exchanged it for the Polycom Communicator C100S.

It is a dedicated speakerphone just like Polycom makes for enterprise but a bit smaller, shaped likea pill and not a Nerf boomerang, a Skype button, a USB port and . . . I guess it is nothing like their enterprise products except for the impressive sound fidelity. I've never heard a Skype call as clear.

So far I have been really happy with it. It operated without flaw until I installed new drivers for a web cam. Once those drivers were on board it created a constant feedback loop. But the Polycom folks seemed to think of everything by adding a headphone jack. Which has saved the day but isn't much farther along than I was before with a headset and onboard mic.

Tags: Polycom Communicator C100S Skype phone C100S USB SkypeIn phone Skype speakerphone

Netgear SPH101 my worst tech purchase ever

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:02:37 -0500

Lachie asked and he shall receive a few days late, but now is better than never.

Three weeks ago, or so, I posted about the Skype phone research that I had done. All completed with the intent to purchase a Skype phone that wouldn't let me down. My general needs were a. that it had a speaker phone for hands free without headset and b. that Skype was embedded on the handset so that I could use the phone without Skype running on my computer.

I found two phones that met my need pretty quickly, the Netgear SPH101 and the Belkin Wifi phone. They had Skype in the handset, had speaker phones and had the added ability of connecting to the internet via Wifi. Sweet!

I didn't take this process lightly because I needed something that would work right out of the box. I read all the reviews I could find. Most negative ones I chalked up to the writer being a newb or not understanding the technology they had purchased and not savvy enough overcome some missing instructions or outdated drivers.

Not heeding this great free advice, because "I know better", I bought the Netgear SPH101. I was stoked. And after using it for 6 hours I was pissed. Here's what was (is) wrong with this thing:

1. The phone has a USB port that only works for powering up the phone
2. The version of Skype on the phone can only be updated via Wifi
3. Update must be run via PC to the IP address of the phone through a proprietary application, not via USB
4. Without the update the legacy version of Skype on the phone causes errors with Skype on your PC when both are running
5. No chat support (I knew this when purchasing but didn't realize what a drag it is without it)
6. The quality would have been better with tin cans
7. Speaker phone dropped 1/3 of other side of conversation

I spent nearly 2 days trying to get the phone working. I pinged it's internal IP, yup it had connection and didn't drop a packet, but when you ran the update through Netgear's software I would get an error telling me that I had the wrong IP. Huh? Your software told me the IP and my router has it listed and I'm pinging the shit out of it.

It was at this point that I broke down and called Netgear's support line. I never call tech support. But this time it was a must because some super nerd made this phone with capabilities that only someone at a call center in India could understand. If this is true I will never know. The three times that I called and waited on hold in excess of 45 minutes each time I was allowed the luxury of leaving a voice mail.

Take this nerd's words of advice and walk quickly away from this phone. Don't even let it's little white cuteness into your gaze because this little siren will wreck your ship. That is your nerd pirate ship of tech conquests. I spit on the Netgear SPH101.

Tags: Netgear SPH101 SPH101 SPH 101 nerd pirate ship tech conquests Belkin Wifi phone

Betsy and her husband Kris Feb 02, 2007

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:27:59 -0500

Croncast - 2007-02-02.mp3

Show: #334
Length: 34:16
Size: 23.5mb
Format: mp3

Betsy and her husband Kris February 02, 2007

Nick T rating of 4

Nick T rating system:
Scale: 1 = Safe for everyone
Scale: 2 = Some parental guidance
Scale: 3 = Maybe this is for 12+
Scale: 4 = Not legal? Probably not for you - Adult themes (like HBO series)
Scale: 5 = Only safe for Betsy's dad

The jokey who left the 300th comment on the Wii Friend Code post
1 (900) Wii-Code
Getting them on the line to chat about their code
Anybody here? Anybody here? Anybody here?
I'm here . . . Now refresh
Betsy shook me down for old equipment to sell on eBay
She sold my brown Zune to some sorry soul
Yeah, I thought it sucked
Next to the Netgear SPH101 Skype phone it was the worst
iTunes is so far ahead of where Microsoft wants to be
The store is a science . . . MS doesn't have a chance starting so far behind
Urge? Yeah, urge to puke . . . urge to bodily
She also sold my DBX compressor/limiter/gate thing
Sold to the Columbus Arts Council
Betsy, "I have a new business idea."
Rows of monitors like head stones staring at you
Maybe they need parts
If I can sell it, it doesn't matter if it was free to me
"Free to Me" to be Betsy's autobiography title
Haven't you said about 100 times that you are going to do that
Land of Nod trip for the purse business
Is this a purse business anymore?
It's back to any hustle that you can get?
Yes, you're right Bears
Manipulating the Land of Nod staff with crying babies
The best day is to go the first day of the month for mark downs
Why it is no longer a purse business
What people expect in our basement . . . it is underwhelming
The Wii article ran in Reuters and then got picked up in many places
Betsy reads the article
"If you have ever picked you nose or punched someone . . . "
I am so embarrassed
What a 32 year old tool
Bernadette says, "Have you thought of horses?"
We know how that would go
Needle in the balls and bullet in the head
Betsy says they still cap them
Dramatic ending needed for champions
Maybe back in 1930 they shot them
FFA, the sheep and the shotgun . . . tell it Betsy
The big dollar sheep showing check
You were chasing the wrong poontang in high school, Kris
Those beefy farm chicks had mad cash

Tags: brown Zune FFA sheep Netgear SPH101 Columbus Arts Council Free to Me

Why a Skype phone? follow up

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 10:01:31 -0500

I re-read my post from yesterday about the Skype phone and realized that I completely missed the most important element, why I was looking for one.

Last Monday marked the work at home chapter in my life and thusly landed me in the Smith man pit (basement) where my cell reception is spotty if non-existent. It wouldn't be fair for me to pick on the carrier, Verizon, as every service we've had has been worse in the rest of our house. We're just in a mobile bottomless pit.

Since I am always sitting in from of my computer the best solution was to get a SkypeOut number and get my people to contact me with that number. So I spent my week hearing the ring, scrambling for a headset, muting my music and hoping that I could pick it up in time for it not to forward the call to my cell. And after five days of doing this, it hit me . . . get a Skype phone.

Tags: SkypeOut Verizon wireless Skype phone sph101 smith man pit

Skype phone

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:26:54 -0500

It has come to my attention after five hours of research and visiting retail stores (which would make my search about 8 hours) that the internet and retailers are slacking. The internet is resting on it's global ass scattering reviews to the winds and retailers seem to be basking in the orange glow of Vonage. That is except Fry's (my favorite place to nerd out) which seems to be basking in plastic rubbermaid bins full of returned open boxed VoIP handsets and Taiwanese trinket USB phones.

That brings me to the point of even writing this, imparting a bit of what I have learned so that the internet will seem less slovenly when you search for Skype phones.

There are a two varieties of Skype phones:

1) Computer needed to make calls
2) Computer not needed to make calls (which I would prefer)

And the rest shakes out from their like this:

Computer needed to make calls
1) USB
2) USB to wireless handset
3) USB dual mode (dual mode is code for connects to your regular phone line too)

Computer not needed to make calls
1) WiFi handsets
2) Ethernet (connects to your router via cable)
3) Dual mode with ethernet (think Cisco iPhone)

The best place to start your search for a Skype phone is Amazon. They have a pretty comprehensive selection and with user reviews from nerds and those less tech savvy who have used the gear.

After that hit Google and search for the phones you're interested in and pay attention to blog posts since most are personal reviews of the phone This phase of the research is where I was able to begin to narrow my choices based on my desire to not have to use my computer to make a call.

Right now I am interested in:
Netgear SPH101 - WiFi and has speakerphone capability
Belkin WiFi - WiFi
Polycom C100S USB
Philips VoIP841 (not for sale yet)

Once I make up my mind I'll do a review.

Tags: Philips VoIP841 Netgear SPH101 Polycom C100S USB VoIP handset

Podshow caching and how to stop it

Thu, 06 Jul 2006 23:06:38 -0400

Three months ago I created a podcast management system. Part of that development was tracking everything that happens with all files, especially RSS. Being a huge stats nerd I freaked when I kept getting regular hits from this ip: 72.3.228.221 to my main RSS feed where the User Agent was null. WTF, a null user agent?

So a little due diligence I found the IP is part of Podshow's block at RackSpace. I skype Chris from Podcast Alley, cause I knew him way back before Podshow, and asked him what was up. Oh yeah, the IP was asking for authentication when I visited so I couldn't see what going on.

I asked him what they were doing with the feeds. His reply was that they were caching them. No big deal. Still problematic in a sense that I am not pinging them to send them an update, but whatever, they got a plan and caching isn't inherintly evil. At this time I requested him to add the User Agent information to the script they were using to pull the feeds. That never happened.

Needless to say I shared this information with a couple of podcasters who immediately blocked the the IP address. But I didn't. So for the last three months they have been hitting not only my feed but the feeds of many other people every half hour and caching them.

But this is where the problem comes in. Yesterday with the botched launch of the new Podshow+. I took a look at the IP which was no longer asking for authentication and took a look around. I look at it like if my feed is public and you are using it in your site and your IP is public and broadcast to my database I can use it too. So I took a look around. Yikes!

I found my feed . . . or did I? What I found as others are finding or any podcaster whether they belong to the network or are paid by podshow is that they are re-writing the cached feeds!! Yup. Changing tags, truncating data, modifying the RSS generator tag to say "Podshow Delivery Network" (Update: it reads "PodShow PDN") and . . . and rewriting the original URL of the feed that they cached. Are you kidding? They don't even link to my original feed. So how would I know people are even subscribed? I wouldn't and they would. More incentive to join their network I guess.

If people weren't sure about Podshow's intent to make money off the back of every podcaster then this is a sure sign that if they did't they sure do now. The fact that Podshow is purporting even at this early stage to be the proprietor of all podcasters is a joke. The arrogance to think that we all somehow owe them or should allow them to rewrite our feeds because their network is the be all end all signals that this is the end for them.

If you would like to stop Podshow from caching your feed and rewriting it as they roll Podcast Alley, Podsafe Music Network and the Podshow home page into the mega Podshow+ PDN then block this IP: 72.3.228.221.

Update: It appears as of 12 a.m. on July 7th the Podshow caching bot or script was turned off. But have some fun checking your logs for their IP address I bet it's there.

Update two: If you would like to see some screen shots and read more of this discussion check out Michael Geoghegan's post or Todd Cochrane's. For some other good opinions, Paul Colligan's "Podshow Hysterics" post and this one from FuzzyBlog. It will be interesting to see where this conversation goes today as this picks up some steam.

Final update then new post: 9:31 a.m. July 7 - Podshow is scraping from the ip again so lets have some fun.

Final final update: 2:05 p.m. July 7 - The XML chicklet link now goes to podcaster's original feeds.

Tags: Podshow PDN caching feeds rewriting feeds 72.3.228.221

Vacation: Act #1 Naperville to Omaha

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 05:59:32 -0400

Croncast - 2006-06-12.mp3

Show: #235
Length: 37:05
Size: 25.4 mb
Format: mp3

Betsy and her husband Kris June 12, 2006

Thus begins our sharing of a vacation that ended 5 days early. We are not quite sure that our big summer vacaction driving to Denver in Slowsky was really a vacation. But we are sure that we will never drive anywhere on vacation again.

What we can say about our trip is that with the help of many lucid memories and five days to regain our footing on solid ground that we would like to bring your our trip in three separate podcasts. There is too much to share in a single 30 to 40 minute podcast that deserves great attention to detail.

What do you call a thousand mile trip in you wife's savings account? If you're us, show prep.

The long, feel good intro
Sending email easy like
When we last left you it was June 2 of 2006 a millenia ago
Things were much simpler then
H.G. Wells Time machine could take us back
Walking hand in hand with your spuse at the beach
I would have liked to have decided not to go on vacation
We should have flown
Short version, we leave, there's trouble and we come home five days early
Here we go
We're going to rcap the whole thing in 3 shows
It is June 2, 2006 in nice and sunny Naperville, IL
Kris is an hour late and damned Skype showed it to Betsy
Moments of our life are really important to you
Betsy pretends that she is me on Skype sometimes
The planets seemed to be aligned for our trip
The eBay pick-up guy got here right on time
Naperville was going to be hardest part with traffic
Driving Slowsky is like launching a boat
An hour and a half later w'ere making 8 miles of progress
The van is too tall for most drive thru awnings
Slowsky went to the dealer and got $1500 of repairs to travel worldwide
This is the point where you start adding up the costs
Gas doesn't count as vehicle maintenance
We finally make it to I-88
Slowsky is topping out at 70 mph with nothing more to give
First omen . . . we ignore it
We're gonna make it to Omaha
It wasn't a shifting issue but I am pushing Slowsky really hard
We get near DeKalb which is 50 miles from home and think about turning it around again
We push on
Betsy says "no" to my lead foot and thinks the 70 mph thing is good Slowsky is sucking gas and needs refill at 180 mile mark, still in Illinois Another omen Kris starts venting that we should have flown at gas station number two
"I drove the Alaskan Highway and need a new car."
All the signs were there
It was our decision to keep moving on
Not true to Betsy's faith
Dinner at The World's Largest Truck Stop on I-80
Maybe it is safe because it's a tourist trap
Nope, it's a 3-D world of a sex offender registry
All just minor inconveniences at this point
Bleeding money out of my eye balls
10 years ago this would have been an adventure but with kids it is a nightmare
In Iowa they drive on the grass
Not a single room vacant
Pulling off on Omaha hoping for an empty hotel room
Scoring a room 20 miles north of downtown
10,000 lesbians converged on Omaha the same day as our vacation, of course

Coming up on Wednesday . . . Vacation: Act #2 Omaha to Denver

Tags: vacation Denver John Elway Dodge Naperville Omaha Slowsky thetrip

Croncast - Amy, Tom and their friend Kris Ep. 1

Thu, 06 Jan 2005 08:38:40 -0500

Croncast - 2005-01-06.mp3

Show: #47
Length: 44:20
Format: mp3
Bit rate: 64k
Size: 20.3 mb

Croncast - Amy, Tom and their friend Kris Ep. 1

Today's show is with guests Amy Gahran and her husband Tom Vilot. We discuss conversations that relate to podcasting, art and other ways we comminucate and make connections. We also get into Tom's art work and a bit about FreeBSD.

The intro for today's show is really bad too. I skipped recording one today during the interview for some reason and won't do it again because today I had to record it on the go with a cheap mic and my skully covering it up for a windscreen.

Thanks Amy and Tom, again for taking some time out with me today.

Today's Show

Bad, bad intro thanks to cheap mic
Today's show is Amy Gahran and her husband Tom Vilot
It's pronounced va' lot
The view from their house in Boulder, CO
Conversation . . . like my solo show from Tuesday
Who invited Amy on Croncast? I did.
The conversation amalgam
Best conversations bring out the energy
Weird collective brain, ingenuity and invention
The connections that are being made
Looking right at the camera
Amy is one hell of a writer
The word for the day is amalgam
Tom is a strange amalgam
Painted Snapshot.com - Tom's gig
The snapshot conversations Tom has with his clients - collaboration
People's most personal and cherished moments
Ask The Builder.com - Tim Carter
Conversations can be asynchronous
We react and change through the conversations
Detaching to grow
"Upstart bloggers" vs. "The gate keepers"
Connections and connections
Tom's FreeBSD experience
Mindmapping for real thoughts and connections
Scientific American Mind - They need Amy to write for them
Amy - http://www.gahran.com
Tom - http://www.paintedsnapshot.com
Kris - well you know
Skype survived

Tags: tom amy conversations connections croncast

Croncast - Jolie and her friend Kris Ep. 1 (remix)

Thu, 30 Dec 2004 10:50:03 -0500

Croncast - 2004-12-30.mp3

Length: 42:21
Format: mp3
Bit rate: 64k
Size: 19.4 mb

Croncast - Jolie and her friend Kris Ep. 1 (remix)

My guest for today cancelled out early so I put together this special edition remix.

Today's show is a remix of the show from December 24, 2004 with Jolie Holland. I've mixed in some songs and done a little more production work that I should have done when I put the show together the first time.

This was a huge honor for me and something I have been looking forward to for the past month. If you've been following the show I am sure you understand.

Jolie talks a little on her past musical experiences, how she found my blog and why it was funny (she thought I was 70, true dat), what it is like to be on Anti Records, other stuff and my favorite . . . a possibly soon to be released live CD and maybe video of the session. For the rest of it you'll have to listen to the show.

Upcoming tour dates.

Today's Show

Intro
Kris says why he's excited today . . .
Jolie Holland is today's guest
Sold my soul to get show out today
Check out Jolie
Jolie talks about the Boulder ukulele
The language used in articles to describe Jolie's music
J.R. to Johnny
A job based on personal eccentricities
Making music that has a unique quality
Multiple interpretations
Escondida, escondido which?
Are those cows?
The rest of the audio landscape
It's cold in Chicago
Kris' audio nerdery takes over
Jolie recorded live and possible CD release of show
Record deals
Jolie talks about her relationship with Anti and its artists
Working with and for other musicians
Chickens laying eggs for business people
The Anti roster
Tricky
Tom Waits
Nick Cave
Kris' music choices are depressing in general
The Black Keys
Gaining real fans who are into your music for the music
Kris thanks Jolie for putting us on the guest list in Chicago
Jolie comments on my critique of the first Chicago show
Move to suburbs and get soft
Seth's lullaby
Be Good Tanya's break-in
"We all choose our level of difficulty."
Where our stories come from
Maybe when I'm 75 people will listen to me
How your band becomes family
I knew Betsy was the one immediately
Jolie's boyfiend knew
Picking citrus on the date that wasn't a date but was
Skype dies
Jolie picks Periphery Waltz from Catalpa
Thanks for listening

Tags: jolie kris music remix guest

Croncast - Jolie and her friend Kris Ep. 1

Fri, 24 Dec 2004 19:50:20 -0500

Croncast - 2004-12-24.mp3

Newer edition of the interview is available.

Show: #38
Length: 43:37
Format: mp3
Bit rate: 64k
Size: 19.9 mb

Croncast - Jolie and her friend Kris Ep. 1

Today's guest is musician, Jolie Holland. This was a huge honor for me and something I have been looking forward to for the past month. If you've been following the show I am sure you understand.

Upcoming tour dates.

Today's Show

Tags: jolie kris music talks chicago

Croncast - Shane and his friend Kris Ep. 1

Wed, 22 Dec 2004 09:59:39 -0500

Croncast - 2004-12-22.mp3

Length: 44:36
Format: mp3
Bit rate: 64k
Size: 20.4 mb

Croncast - Shane and his friend Kris Ep. 1

Today's guest is Shane Robinson from NOTM.org.

Shane and Kris shoot the breeze about the winward side of the island. Aloha everybody! We talk about new podcasting applications, blogging vs. podcast, do your show your way, rules to live by and making up words.

Skype stuff continues but we make it through it and the edits don't have the ringing today I believe.

Today's Show

Notes soon.

Tags: shane croncast kris friend ep

Croncast - Susan and her friend Kris Ep. 1

Mon, 20 Dec 2004 08:21:52 -0500

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Length: 38:16
Format: mp3
Bit rate: 64k
Size: 17.5 mb

Croncast - Susan and her friend Kris Ep. 1

Today's guest is Susan Manning, manning.susan@comcast.net. The topics for discussion today are based around Susan's work with audio for ESL students, professional development and a bit on women in podcasting. I keep forgetting to mention Nicole Simon and owe her an apology!

I think. I'll have to listen to the show again but we do have some fun.

Today's Show

Intro
Susan ain't sweet
Susan teaches technology for the University of Illinois
White knuckles about podcast
The experiment and two pages of notes, typed
Auditory learners
Priming the scenario discussion
Meeting the team for scenario
Kris is good with the names
Dr. Susan Manning busting it out
Doctorates are expected
Pull me out of the quicksand, Susan
Scenario based learning
Engaging the learner through story and script
Getting groups to work effectivley in an online course
Dialogue and media in online learning
Novelty can move the students along
Susan teaches ESL
Frenchies gave us Wimba
Susan slinks away
Susan breaks down using Wimba
Grading papers using Wimba
Wimba Wimba Wimba
The Wimba party for ESL
Now they want to meet
Identifying one another by voice
White man sits here and says he's not in power
Sometimes the accent can stop'em
Women and podcasting begins . . . now
Communication and play, boys vs. girls
Women will say it differently
People with bad thoughts or no thoughts just want to talk
What's up with the iPod mini? It's fo' ladies.
Will there be another digital divide with mp3 devices?
Devices will be a social status - more ubiquitous than a cd player
Susan, Betsy and Amy on Skype conference call . . . maybe

Tags: susan wimba esl scenario kris

Croncast - Amy her and friend Kris Ep. 1

Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:21:55 -0500

Croncast - 2004-12-17.mp3

Length: 30:35
Format: mp3
Bit rate: 64k
Size: 14.0 mb

Croncast - Amy and her friend Kris Ep. 1

Today's guest is Amy Gahran from blog.contentious.com. Notes in a minute . . .

The blog post that started it all, The "Pod People" Are So Human.
The follow up, Text, Audio, and Editing: I Stand Somewhat Corrected.

It has been a really busy day. So busy that I have to listen to the first show with Amy Gahran to figure out what we talked about.

Amy and I recorded a second show for Tuesday December 21, 2004. The topics for that show are women in podcasting and podcasting in e-learning.

Today's Show

Intro
Moving to Boulder
Amy Gahran - spell it again. G-a-h-r-a-n
Skype interruption
Amy's blog - Blog.contentious.com
She's a writer
Here we go about the post
Amy's podcasting appeal
Back to the quote
So what do you mean Kris?
Production vs. Editing
Phrasing
Getting down with "wordsmithing"
Jolie Holland email - she's playing Boulder, CO
Humanity of podcasting
Communication
More compliments
How Amy makes the dollars
Amy - Information Provocateur
Kilowatt
SEJ.org - http://www.sej.org/
Intellectually omnivorous
Next episode - Women in podcasting and Podcasting in the E-learning context
Amy wraps it up
G - as in good

Tags: amy podcasting blog croncast kris

Croncast - Richie and his friend Kris Ep. 1

Wed, 08 Dec 2004 10:15:03 -0500

Croncast - 2004-12-08.mp3

Length: 55:16
Format: mp3
Bit rate: 64k
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Croncast - Richie and his friend Kris Ep. 1. Today's guest is Richie Carey from www.careyinternet.com. We talk about using blogs for business solutions from small to large to engage customers. Of course that is the intended focus but the meandering began early.

Mixed with technical difficulties with Skype I was able to get the show together. We should have done a Dawn and Drew double ender but instead I opted to record everything locally. My soundcard has a lot of extra noise that I didn't hear when recording the show. At one point I commited sin of messing with audio levels wjile recording . . . you'll know when!

This show was a lot of fun to record. Thanks again to my new friend Richie Carey who will be a frequent guest on the show, I hope.

Today's Show

Intro
Breakdown on the recording process
Why did Richie get into podcasting?
Everyone should podcast quality doesn't matter
Lots-o-devices
Mobile podcasting from Sears
Business blogging
It is not your speakers - I fucked up audio levels
Business blogging rap up
Stop the record
Start the record
Jolie Holland
Signed talent
Robust podcasting clients will have their day
Podcast.net and Feedcast.com (I called feedcaster)
Stream it from your site
What to do with all the stuff
Get podcasting into your portfolio
Money?
Firing up the name drop - Tony Kahn (way too surreal)
Early dot-com days
This is a conversation
When will musicians get in?
That's a wrap

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